Erie Times-News
Published July 7, 2007
by Rachel Kaufman

The 12 wedding cakes Kevin Horton created this week are the most he has ever done solo.

Once he decorated 14 cakes in a day, but that wasn’t when he had to do the baking and washing up by himself.

“I have to do what I have to do,” said Horton, owner of Kevin’s Kakes. “I’m under that kind of schedule.”

It’s a lot, but today is the busiest wedding day of the year. Experts estimate that 38,000 to 70,000 couples nationwide will tie the knot today, on the “lucky sevens” — July 7, 2007, or 7/7/07. Typically, 12,000 weddings take place on a July Saturday, according to TheKnot.com, a popular wedding planning site. Chalk up this date’s popularity to superstition, religious beliefs or convenience: The date also is a summer Saturday following on the heels of a major holiday.

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